Mohammed Lat will pray for the victims of the September 11 terror attacks during his daily visit to the mosque Wednesday — but he will also offer up a little prayer for himself and the way things were.
A homemade bomb blast killed two police officers at a beach resort in eastern Algeria, one of several violent events in the insurgency-ridden country that left a total of five dead
Twenty-three people died in a night of violence which erupted as Philippine police went to arrest the politically connected leader of a messianic cult accused of murdering his wife.
Nearly 12 000 Somali refugees will be transferred this week to a camp in northwestern Kenya to await resettlement in the United States, UN officials said Sunday.
Eleven men suspected of taking part in the murder of Nigeria’s justice minister appeared in court on Monday amid preparations for a politically explosive trial.
A day after the US and Russia agreed to a landmark cut in nuclear warheads, Nato foreign ministers met to seal an accord with Moscow to bury Cold War enmity and formalise new cooperation, notably against terrorism.
Eastern Cape premier and provincial chairman of the African National Congress, Makhenkesi Stofile, has squashed rumours that he plans to retire.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Yasser Arafat was ”finished”, in his latest jab at the Palestinian leader, besieged by the army in his Ramallah office.
Tough-talking new foreign minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to be sworn in on Wednesday as Israel prepares for early elections which the right is tipped to win, while in the Gaza Strip an armed Palestinian kills two Jewish settlers before being shot dead.
Vatican cardinals and bishops on Tuesday formally recognised as authentic a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Vatican sources said, making it a formality that Pope John Paul II will grant her sainthood status.